Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans - ISBN: 9780141186009
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Chaos and wit rule St Custard’s in Molesworth’s hilarious, subversive world.

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  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    6 December 2000

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Summary

School is ‘wet and weedy’, according to Nigel Molesworth, the ‘goriller of 3B’, ‘curse of St Custard’s’ and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and he has little time for such things as botany walks and cissy poetry with an assortment of swots, snekes and oiks. Instead he is very good at missing lessons, charming masters and putting down little brothers, in fact he is exceptional at most things except spelling. Wildly funny and full of sharp observat…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141186009
ISBN-10:0141186003
Author:Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle, Philip Hensher
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:6 December 2000
Weight:311g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 24mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

Geoffrey Willans

Philip Hensher is the prizewinning author of twelve novels. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of the British Short Story (in two volumes) and of The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

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